Verlag: Constable and Co, 1931
Anbieter: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: Fair. 1931. No Edition Remarks. 343 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracking to front hinge, with exposed netting. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed and tanned.
Verlag: London: Constable & Co., 1930
Anbieter: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). First edition (first printing). Hardback. Physically 9" x 5¾" (1.2 kg); (viii) 357pp; Index; Includes: Black & white plates; Frontispiece; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #197980|| Condition: Good. Sunned at the spine and the margins of the boards. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Private book plate to the pastedown. The contents complete, clean and tight otherwise.
Verlag: London: Cecil Palmer, 1925
Anbieter: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). First edition (first printing). Hardback. Physically 9" x 5¾" (1.1 kg); (ix) 286pp; Index; Includes: Black & white plates; Frontispiece; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #197981|| Condition: Very Good. Leans a little. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block and lining papers. Previous owners' name and date to the first blank. Pages a touch age-toned with scattered spotting, more so to the start and end.
hardcover. Zustand: Good.
Verlag: W. Collins Sons And Co. Ltd.,, London,, 1927
Anbieter: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp. 270. Frontispiece. Original publisher's brown buckram lettered gilt on spine. Presentation copy to 'Leonard Green' from 'S.M. Oct. 1927.' 'S.M.' refers to Stewart Marsh Ellis. Loosely inserted leaf from 'The Bookman' dated May, 1920 which contains an article by Ellis about Forrest Reid. Inscribed 'L.G. from S.M. Ellis' on upper margin of the article. The book is dedicated to J.S.R. in affectionate token of a long friendship. James Rutherford, brother of Andrew Rutherford to whom Reid dedicated 'The Kingdom of Twilight which was his first book. 'Demophon' is an historical fantasy set in ancient Greece 'a tale of enchanted seas and islands, where all the world was young.' Leonard Green (1906 Ð 1957) wrote two volumes of prose sketches and was an industrial advisor on labour relations, a Uranian poet and a friend of T.E. Lawrence and C.S. Millard. Forrest Reid (1875 Ð 1945) was from Northern Ireland and the author of numerous novels about boyhood, and a literary critic and translator. His work was admired by E.M. Forster and Walter de la Mare and he is still regarded as the greatest of Ulster's novelists. Stewart Marsh Ellis (1878 Ð 1933) was George Meredith's nephew and a literary critic. Lower hinge a little weak, one corner bumped, otherwise a very good copy. Slight wear, otherwise very good indeed.
Verlag: Constable. 1951, 1951
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Half title, illus. Blue cloth, d.w. First published in 1931. New publisher's note to this edition, with added checklists of works. As well as Wilkie Collins: Charles Allston Collins, Mortimer Collins, R.D. Blackmore, Le Fanu, Edward Bradley & George Lawrence, Mrs Riddell, etc.